Professor Ellen Douglas-Cowie

Professor Ellen Douglas-Cowie (born 1951), former dean
of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, is the Pro Vice
Chancellor at Queen's University Belfast. A linguistics expert, Ellen’s
range of topics includes spoken English, phonetics and sociolinguistics.

She was educated at Limavady Grammar School.

Her research
focuses on speech analysis including speech deterioration in
post-lingual deafness and the identification and recognition of emotion
from speech and face. She describes her areas of specialisation are:
speech and emotion with particular reference to databases of emotional
speech, the description of emotion for speech technology purposes,
speech analysis and machine recognition of emotion.

She has
written numerous journal articles, co-authored the title, 'Postlingually
Acquired Deafness: Speech Deterioration and the Wider Consequences' and
co-edited the special edition of Speech Communication on 'Speech and
Emotion'.

Professor Ellen Douglas-Cowie is or has been a Director
of Queen's Overseas Recruitment Limited and The Universities and
Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS).